If the skyrocketing sales of black bandeaus after endorsements from the Kardashian-Jenners are any indication, the censor bar look is certainly A Thing. Resident ELLE.com vintage shopping expert, model, and stylist Sami Miró is on board. Among the inaugural designs in her her newly launched collection, Sami Miró Vintage, are can't-look-away sheer body suits featuring patches of vintage fabric over the chest. She promises you can wear them with everything.

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We caught up with her to talk about her new line, how to wear it, and how styling her boyfriend Zac Efron helped the project come to life.

How did the idea for Sami Miró Vintage come along?

I literally started maybe 10 days ago. It's been a frickn' insane ride, but amazing one. I have a Masters in Global Entrepreneurship and I knew that eventually one day I would want to start my own company, I just didn't know exactly what it would be. I worked for a tech startup for like four years and then when I decided to kind of quit my corporate job in marketing to try and pursue my creative instincts. I was kind of figuring out what exactly that was and so I did a little bit of modeling, styling; and I specialize in vintage so after doing this for a little bit of time, I realized that my next step, which I didn't know how soon or far away it would be, was to start my own line by using a lot of reconstructed vintage fabrics and doing what I could with vintage because if it's me, there has to be some vintage involved in it.

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How did you finally get started on it?

Zac [Efron] asked me to style him for the MTV Movie Awards and so I started kind of thinking about what I wanted his look to be and in doing so, I started sketching and designing some things and said "Hey, actually I think I should design something for you and this is my idea," and he loved it. It was essentially the piece that he ended up wearing, which was all vintage denims of different kinds all patched together, some frayed, some not. I'm definitely not a master sewer by any means so I was trying to think who I could have actually construct it for me, and there's a designer who I admire, who I have actually met a few years back when he first started, his name is Phlemuns and he's a really incredible designer, he's gonna blow up soon, I know, and he does a lot of work with recycled denim. So I reached out to him and I asked if we could kind of collaborate together and we did that and he made the jacket for me and we kind of went back and forth all three of us until we created the jacket. And so, when I started designing for this jacket, I realized that it really was like exactly what I wanted Sami Miró Vintage to be. From that, I just started designing other pieces like this bodysuit and chokers made of reconstructed denim, vintage denim, and a few other pieces that are going to be coming out soon. I just have been working my ass off for the last 10 days and somehow managed to pull together a line.

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How did Zac like your design?

He loved it. Like, he says it's his favorite jacket he's ever had.

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Where'd you get inspiration for the pieces?

So I'm obsessed with bodysuits. I feel like when I wear those bodysuits it kind of jazzes my outfit up or makes it more sexy, and so I already was wearing just like regular, sheer bodysuits in general, but the issue was like the whole nipple situation. I would wear them just under t-shirts so it wasn't an issue, but if I ever wanted to wear it like just the bodysuit with like jeans or a skirt or something like that, I would have to wear a bra under it and I just thought it ruined the whole look. I was trying to think of things I could do to just cover up the boob part and still make it cute and not distracting. Because, wearing a bra under it, in a way, almost amplifies the sexiness of it because when you see some sexy bra under a sexy bodysuit and it's just too much sexiness in my opinion, so I just started playing around with different possibilities. After making Zac's jacket and using the vintage denim, I thought "Oh wait, this would be perfect, a strip to cover up just the necessary parts and then you don't have to worry about wearing a bra at all and you're good to go."

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How would you style the pieces?

I mean, you can wear it with literally anything. You could wear it with some cute, baggy sweatpants; I styled it in one look with like a high-waisted vintage leather skirt, you could put any skirt with it. High-waisted pants, leather pants, baggy jeans, you could put a dress over it, you could wear some shorts with it. I think it's a very versatile piece that can literally be worn with anything. Sometimes I wear a large t-shirt over it so it's like a dress basically, so you can just see the sheer turtleneck coming out of the top and out of the sleeves. You can pile some jackets on it. [At the MTV Movie Awards] I wore them with vintage suede pants.

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Chokers are super popular right now, is that why you included some in your collection?

I have such a massive choker collection and for a long time now, I've just been making my own chokers, buying some fabric that I like and just making them myself. I knew that when I started my line I would want to incorporate chokers. And it's so bizarre because it's so in right now, but on the Internet I really couldn't find an interesting denim choker. Especially not a vintage denim choker, that's like the way I did it and frayed, which was kind of weird to me. I feel like it's one of those things where it's some random invention that is so easy, but nobody did it yet and when someone does it, you're like "Oh, why didn't I think of that?" I think it's just such a little sexy addition to put a choker on. It goes with anything and can jive with any outfit and, in my opinion, the more vintage denim in an outfit, the better. I just love that.